Proverbs 10:29-30

The way of the Lord Either, 1st, The course of his providence in the government of the world: or rather, 2d, The way of God's precepts, commonly meant by that expression in the Scriptures; is strength to the upright Gives them strength, support, and protection. But destruction Hebrew, מחתה, terror, or consternation, and destruction consequent thereupon; shall be to the workers of iniquity They shall not only not inherit the earth, though they lay up treasure in it; but they shall not so much as inhabit it, Proverbs 10:30; God's judgments will root them out. The design of these two verses is to show that piety is the only true policy.